Box-strap



(No Model.)

S. G. GARY. BOX STRAP.

,No.. 450,753. Patented Apr. 21, 1891.

' with tongues, one or more, at or near the strap UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

SPENCER O. CARY, OF BALDXVIN, NEIV YORK.

B O X S T RA P.

SPECIFICATION forming" part of Letters Patent No. 450,753, dated April21, 1891.

Application filed October 29, 1890. Serial No.369,643. (No model.)

To all whom it 12mg concern.-

Be it known that I, SPENCER G. CARY, of Baldwin, county of Queens, Stateof New York, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Metal Box-Straps, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Myinvention relates to a metal strap adapted to be bent upon and aboutthe corner of a boX and seated thereon, or to be seated and securedflatwise upon the adjacent corners or faces of two boxes placed one uponthe other; and my invention consists in a box-strap composed of a metalstrip or plate of suitable length, the edges of the opposite ends ofwhich are curved in outline and having a corrugation at or upon andalong its side edges and said curved end edges and provided ends andwithin the line of the said edge corrugations out from the strap-bodyand bent at an angle to the face of the strap which is opposite to thecorrugated face thereof, substantially as and for the purposehereinafter set forth.

Figure l is a plan of a metal box-strap containing my invention; andFig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same on the line a: 00, Fig. 1,and showing the strap bent upon itself to fit to and around a boxcorner.

A is a metal plate or strip of suitable length and width, as shown. Theend edges a of the strip or plate are curved in outline, as shown.

At a is shown a corrugation formed in the strip or plate at, upon, andcontinuously along the side edges and end edges thereof and throughoutits length corresponding'in direction to the outline of said edges, asshown.

At a are tongues near the ends of the strip or plate and which may beone or more in number at each said end, said tongues being struck or cutfrom the body of the strip or plate within the line of the edgecorrugation, as shown, and bent at an angle to the face of the strip orplate which is opposite to the corrugated face thereof. The strap thusconstructed may be bent upon itself, as shown in Fig. 2, to be seated onand fit to abort corner, when the tongues a will serve to fasten thestrap to its place, the curved end edges a will present an edgecontinuous from the side edges without angles or projections, which,when present, are liable to catch against adjacent objects, and thecontinuous corrugation a at, upon, and along the side and end edges willoperate to force and hold said edges snugly to the box surface.

I am aware that box-straps have been heretofore formed with tongues cutfrom the strapbody and bent at an angle to the face thereof, and hence Imake no claim thereto, broadly, herein. I am also aware that boxstrapshave been formed with their end edges curved in outline, and thereforeImake no claim to such form of the said edges, broadly, herein; and I amalso aware that box-straps have been corrugated along and upon theirside edges and have been given corrugations extending laterally of thestrap; but in such latter case the lateral corrugations have not. beenat and upon the said end edges.

I believe myself to be the first who has constructcd a metal box-strapwith curved end edges, a corrugation at and along and upon the sideedges and continuously therefrom at, along, and upon the curved endedges, and with tongues struck or cut from the strapbody at or near theends thereof and within the line of the edge corrugation and bent at anangle to that face of the strap which is opposite to the corrugated facethereof; and it is therefore to a box-strap in which these elements arein combination that I make and define my claim herein.

lVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

As an article of manufacture, a box-strap composed of a metal plate orstrip, the end edges of which are curved in outline and having acorrugation which is continuous at, along, and upon the side edges, andsaid end edges and tongues at or near the strap ends cut from thestrap-body within the line of said edge corrugation and bent at an angleto the face of the strap which is opposite to the corrugated facethereof, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

SPENCER C. GARY.

\Vitnesses:

ARDEN S. FITCH, A. T. FALns.

